J r ackerley editor (26 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st American Edition. 354 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly bumped cover board corners. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. No dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st. First American Edition; dj in mylar (price unclipped), in mylar; 354 clean, unmarked pages/index; owner's name.Ackerley was an influential British writer and literary editor known for his work with the BBC, his frank memoirs, and his open homosexuality during a time when it was illegal.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. From the collection of Ian Angus (British Librarian and a scholar on George Orwell), whose name and date are pencilled to FEP. Jacket is scuffed and sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Board edges and spine ends are bumped, and page block is tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Sir Edmund Whittaker "Are There Eternal Truths?" / Brunsdon Yapp "Nature and the National Parks" / Richard Scott "Germany's Part in Western Defence" / Peter Abrahams "The Old Chief's Prayer" / Hilda Kuper "Cultures in transition" ("Partnership in Africa" series) / F C Bawden "The Control of Plant Diseases" (Papers).…

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a very good price clipped dust jacket with very slight edge wear.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. E C Eggins "The Belgian Congo: a Contented Colony" / Bernard Lewis "The Ottoman Empire and Islam" / Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber "The Problems of M.Pinay" / Christopher Serpell "Has Italy Struck Oil?" / Barbara Ward "The Age of Confusion" / W G Hoskins "The Market Town" / Hugh Dalton "Labour's Criticisms of the Government" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Albert Hourani "Islam and the West" / Clifton Utley "The American Election: a Fight Without Issues" / Bertrand Russell "Reason and Passion" / John Strachey "The Essence of Democracy" / J D Rheinallt Jones "Africans and the Mining Industry" / W N Ewer "Changing Manners of Diplomacy" / W G Hoskins "The Open-Field Town" / N W Pirie "The Making of Food" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Steven Runciman "The Rise of Islam" / Christopher Hollis "Does the Party System Work?" / K J Holyoake "New Zealand and Britain's Food" / Lotd Samuel "Asquith's Character and Personality" / Gilbert Murray "Asquith's Achievements as a Statesman" / W G Hoskins "The Planned Town" / Michael Graham "How Much is Left in the Sea Larder?" / Douglas Spanner "The Question of Miracles" / Alistair Cooke "Campaigning by Train and Aeroplane" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Francis Noel=Baker "No Change in 'Neutral' Sweden?" / Arthur Gaitskell "Development by Partnership in the Sudan" / Lotd Kinross "The New State of Libya" / Norman Wright "All Flesh Is Grass" / Alan Bullock "The Character of Hitler" / Ian Watt "Should Criticism be Humanist?" / Isabelle Vischer "Different Ways with Cabbage" / H A Powell "Cricket in Kiriwina" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Alastair Hetherington ", Scotland's Part in Britain's Economy" / Sir Arthur Grumble "Tales from the Pacific Islands" / Roger Fulford "Trophies at Apsley House" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. A K Cairncross "How Does the Soviet System Work?" / Charles Collingwood "American Elections: The Last Phase" / Douglas McKie "Sir William Ramsay, a Great British Chemist" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Arnold Toynbee "The World and the West" (Reith lecture) (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. R H Nolte "What is Islam" / Vernon Bartlett "Yugoslavia Looks to the West" / Peter Floyd "Decorative Arts under Queen Victoria" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Raymond Mortimer "The People of India" / The Hon. N C Havenga "South Africa's Place in World Economy" / Max Ler er "The Life Cycle in America" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. John Baillie "Science and Faith" / Tribute to Sir Max Beerbohm / Graham Hough "The Progress of Criticism" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. R G Manzies "The Commonwealth's Fight against Inflation" / Lyndon Harries "The Tragedy in Kenya Today"/ Joseph Harsch "General Eisenhower Returns" / George Ferguson "Canada's Attitude to the Sterling" / Arnold Toynbee "The Psychology of Encounters" / A R Ubbelohde "Heat Into Work" / Sir William Hamilton Fyfe "Public Schools and the Future" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. The Rev H A Williams "Meditation for Christmas Day" / Elka Schrijver "'The Miracle of the Netherlands'" / Lili Kowalska "We Came to England" / Arnold Toynbee "The World and the Greeks and Romans" / Francis Watson "The Celestial Damsels of Khajro" / Peter De Mendelssohn "Against the Grain of America's History" / Sam Pollock "Britain's New-Style Coal-Miners" / A R Ubbelohde "Life,Time, and Themodynamics" (Papers). …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Charles Collingwood "General Eisenhower's Team" / Edwatd Atiyah "The Political Future of the Southern Sudan" / The Reith Lecture - Arnold Toynbee "The World and the West: India" / Eric Bellingham "Britain's Forgotten Homes" / A G Lehmann "The Empress' Fool" - correspondence between Prosper Merimee and Ivan Turgenev / Alistair Cooke "The Inevitability of Television" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Lady Kelly "Soviet Museums: Art with a Pirpose" /J B McGeachy "Canada in a Mood for Change?" / Cecil J Allen "The Wealdstone Disaster and Train Control" / Arnold Toynbee "The World and the West: Islam" / Alistair Cooke "Reflections on the 'Eisenhower Earthquake'" / Basil Taylor "Stubbs and Eighteenth-century Art" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. S M Manton "How the U>S>S>R> is Developing Central Asia" / Wilfred Burns "The Planner and the Economic Crisis" / Terence Prittie "The Germans and the European Army" / Paul Bareau "Building the European Community" / Colin Legum "Partnership in Africa-IV" / Lionel Fleming "Conquering the Zuider Zee" / Bertrand Russell "'Completely Married': Sidney and Beatrice Webb" / Harold Wincott "Capitalism without Capital" / I S Bowen "The Giant Telescope at Mount Palomar" / Kathleen Tillotson "Harriett Mozley's Tales for the Young" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. W Grigor McClelland "Two Communist Capitals: Moscow and Peking" / Lord Burghley "Reflections on the Olympic Games" / Vernon Watkins "The Ballad of Culver's Hole" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Ludwig Rosenberg "Is Germany Safe for Democracy?" / W G Penney "The British Atomic Explosion" / Hesketh Pearson "The Origin of 'Androcles and the Lion'" (Papers).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. AUTUMN BOOK NUMBER (Papers).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Note laid in from Alan Ross of London Magazine, requesting review from Roy Fuller, whose name is penned to FEP, as well as two newspaper book reviews. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+ book, in a near fine DW now protected in plastic; book is in very good condition, some dust marks to edges of last few pages. Otherwise, in great condition. The Letters of J. R. Ackerley is an invaluable posthumous collection of personal and professional correspondence written by the acclaimed English author and editor J. R. (Joe Randolph) Ackerley. Compiled and meticulously contextualised by the British critic and biographer Neville Braybrooke, the volume was first published in 1975 by Gerald Duckworth & Co.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 216 pages. In 1967 Ackerley left his diaries to Francis King, whose selection for this f irst paperback edition, while covering his friendships with Forster and Sassoon, concentrates on Ackerley's extraordinary relationship with his sister Nancy, hi s ancient, twice-married Aunt Bunny, and his Alsatian bitch. It is a moving stor y in which he found himself inextricably bound to his clinging, sad, and sometim es mentally ill sister. In essence theirs was a love story - even if one of rese ntments and jealous demands on her side and of exasperation and guilt on his. J. R Ackerley wrote five books: The Prisoners of War, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, We Think the World of You and My Father and Myself. …